To kind of challenge the ways thathat in much of our public conversation today there is a kind of dangerous i think distinction being made between whats being treated as the good old Civil Rights Movement and the sort of movements for Racial Justice and black lives matter today. These are very dangerous distinctions and i think really looking at the history of rosa parks and particularly look at the history of rosa parks through criminal justice, really challenges these distinctions that some commentators are making today. And so i think a real look at rosa parks remind us from scottsboro to emmett till and jeremiah reeds distorted campaigns for justice for black women who were raped to the kind of criminalization of organizing that we see with Highlander Folk School and the bus buck offs to all of the Defense Committees she served on to all the antiPolice Brutality work she did sitting on the peoples tribunal after the 1967 detroit uprising and on and on. I think seeing that scope giv
Artifact of theater’s early days is back on display
The painted scene at the Garde Arts Center doesn’t look like New London, just a generic cityscape. But on every building is the name of a local bu.